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Patent GB-2264596-A (GB)
Title: A dc-ac converter for igniting and supplying a gas discharge lamp
Inventor: ZENG XIAOMING
IPC: H05B41/298
Filed: 1992-02-18
Abstract: The converter has series-connected FET's 10, 16 rendered alternately conductive by a transformer 28, a capacitive voltage divider 22, 23 connected across FET 16 with one capacitor 23 forming a resonant circuit with the primary 27 of transformer 28, a transistor 26 responsive to lamp current sensed by a resistor 37 for controlling the positive cycle of the resonant waveform of resonant circuit and thereby maintain a constant output current during preheating of lamp filaments 41, 43 and during normal lamp running, and a circuit which inhibits the current control circuit during lamp ignition. The inhibiting circuit has a voltage divider 36, 38 to sense the voltage across the lamp 42, whereby during preheating a capacitor 34 charges until a transistor 33 turns on to keep transistor 26 off so that the converter provides a sufficiently high current relatively low frequency output to ignite the lamp. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2254237-A (GB)
Title: Bird feeders
Inventor: ANCKETILL DAVID
IPC: A01K39/01
Filed: 1992-02-24
Abstract: A bird feeder comprises: a food holder (1) and shroud (15) which is biased in an open position by a spring 25. When an animal such as a squirrel not intended to feed from the bird feeder lands on the shroud (15) or a roof portion (17) of the shroud, the weight of the animal causes the shroud to descend against the biasing action of the spring 25. The shroud 15 closes the food holder thereby preventing the animal from gaining access to the food. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2259428-A (GB)
Title: Communication device
Inventor: HO MING WAI KENNY
IPC: H04M11/06
Filed: 1992-06-12
Abstract: A portable text communicating device for use with a telephone line has a housing 1, and a touch pad 2 mounted on the housing for use in creating a text. A display 3 is provided next to the pad for displaying the text and an electric circuit in the housing converts the text into serial electronic data for application to a telephone line. An electric circuit in the housing receives serial electronic data from the telephone line and converts the data to a text for the display. Fig. 6 (not shown) shows how the device may be strapped to a conventional telephone handset in use. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2271546-A (GB)
Title: Vacuum packaging chamber and method
Inventor: PASETTI ENZO
IPC: B65B31/02
Filed: 1992-10-19
Abstract: A vacuum chamber has a lower chamber portion 11 with at least one groove 16a, 16b formed in the internal surface of the side wall 14 adjacent the rim of the chamber. The grooving results in a reduction of the incidence of wrinkles in the cover film of a finished pack because surplus film at its edges can be accommodated in the grooves as the film is drawn downwardly to cover a filled tray located in a recess 21 in a support plate 17. The film is heated by an upper heating plate 19 prior to being drawn downward. The grooves are of arcuate, eg. parabolic, cross-section and may be provided along two opposed side walls which are parallel to the direction of introduction of the film (or along all four side walls). <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2262640-A (GB)
Title: Security installation and operating method
Inventor: RALPH MICHAEL TREVOR
IPC: G07C9/00
Filed: 1992-12-02
Abstract: A security installation (10), such as a cash carry van or depot, is fitted with one or more locks (14, 15) of a type which is arranged to receive release signals and which is enabled for unlocking by those signals when the lock recognises the signals as representing a release code known to the lock. To avoid forced or willing cooperation of personnel at the security installation (10) enabling ready unlocking of the locks (14, 15). the security installation includes first communication means (19) for transmitting a request to a remote station (20) that a particular lock (14, 15) be enabled for unlocking, second communications means (19) for receiving release signals provided by said remote station (20) in response to said request, and transfer means (16) for transferring the release signals from the second communications means (19) to the lock concerned. The transfer means (16) are such as to keep from personnel present at said security installation (10), the identity of the release signals corresponding to a lock release code otherwise than for servicing the current request. This arrangement enables personnel at the remote station (20) to verify that the lock release request is a legitimate one and either prevents the personnel at the installation from knowing any release code at all or only makes a release code accessible to such personnel for servicing an already-verified request. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-928023-A (GB)
IPC: B66B1/16
Abstract: 928,023. Lift control systems. WESTING- HOUSE ELECTRIC CORPORATION. April 20, 1961 [April 25, 1960], No. 14242/61. Drawings to Specification. Class 78 (3). In a lift control system, the call registering means, the landing selector means, the direction determining means, the stopping means and the door control means each comprise a plurality of electrical static elements which respond to operation of a notching relay carried by the car and operated by inductor plates mounted in the shaft. The Specification describes in detail a system, incorporating NOR, OR, MEMORY and DELAY elements, for a lift serving five floors, in which the components of the control system associated with each floor are mounted on a board corresponding to the floor supported withdrawably in a rack, Fig. 7 (not shown) together with a terminal circuit board and a relay board. Each board is provided with a printed circuit board into which the static elements are plugged.
Patent GB-2263583-A (GB)
Title: Tunable microwave bandstop filter device
Inventor: MARCOUX JEAN
IPC: H01P1/203
Filed: 1992-06-25
Abstract: A tunable microwave bandstop filter device comprises a main microwave transmission line (1), at least one filter cell comprising a coupled line segment (4) coupled to the main transmission line (1) and arranged parallel to and remotely from the latter, and also a tunable LC resonant circuit (5, 6). According to the invention, the tunable LC resonant circuit (5, 6) is placed between one of the ends of the line segment (4) and the main microwave transmission line (1).
Patent GB-2264906-A (GB)
Title: Collapsible steering column
Inventor: YAMAGUCHI MIKIO
IPC: B62D1/19
Filed: 1993-03-05
Abstract: A collapsible steering column apparatus comprising: a steering column 3 capable of receiving an insertion of a steering shaft having its one end to which a steering wheel is fixed: and an energy absorbing member 25 composed of a plastically deformable material and having its front end 31 joined to a partial outer peripheral surface of the steering column and its rear end joined to a portion fixed to a vehicle body. The energy absorbing member is formed by punching out a sheet of metal plate in such an undulatory configuration extending in the back-and-forth direction that width dimensions vary by degrees in the back-and-forth direction. When applying an impulsive force to thrust the steering column forward due to a secondary shock sequent to an accident of collision, the energy absorbing member permits a forward displacement of the steering column while being plastically deformed in such a direction as to extend the undulations thereof. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2266507-A (GB)
Title: Axial feed of elongate rotary members
Inventor: PRATT ARNOLD JAMES STUART
IPC: B23K20/12
Filed: 1993-04-22
Abstract: A feed arrangement for a rotating bar (B) comprises a rotary drive means (4) carrying a series of axially spaced clamping devices (10) comprising collets (44) through which the bar passes. The clamping devices are axially reciprocated in phased sequence and the collet of each device closes upon the bar while the device is moving forwards. The sequence is so controlled that at all times the bar is clamped by the collet of at least one forwardly moving device and is thereby continuously fed forwards while being rotated by the active clamping device. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2279940-A (GB)
Title: Bottle cap with plug and safety ring
Inventor: SHY SHIAN-TYNG
IPC: B65D41/04
Filed: 1993-07-13
Abstract: A plastics bottle cap for a plastics bottle 4 comprises a cap body 2 having a security ring 3 joined thereto at the bottom periphery by a plurality of breakable contact points (21, Fig 4), an internal thread 22, a rounded annular channel 23 inside said cap body and adjacent to the top of said internal thread 22, and a cylindrical flange or plug 22 extending downwardly from the inner side of said round surface and parallel with said body. In use, rounded channel 23 tightly abuts the top of bottle 4 and plug 22 is tight against the inner wall of the bottle neck thus tightly sealing the bottle. The cap may have an outwardly inclined portion 31 between contact points (21, Fig 4) and ring 3 which aids release for to mould after injection moulding. Portion (25, Fig 4) may join the ring 3 to body 2 after the contact points (21, fig 4) are broken. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2270995-A (GB)
Title: Fibre optic cable
Inventor: BERESFORD DAVID MICHAEL
IPC: G02B6/44
Filed: 1993-07-15
Abstract: A fibre optic cable having limited fire hazard (L.E.H) properties comprises a tubular core support 1 surrounded by a plurality of tubular members 2 made of L.F.H. material, such as a polyolefin loaded with fire resisting material. At least some of the tubular members 2 have fibre optic strands 3 contained within them. These tubes are contiguous with both the core and each other, being held in place by e.g. a glass binding tape, and sheathed with L.F.H. material. Some of the tubular members may have a filler of L.F.H. material and some members may be replaced by cylindrical strands of L.F.H. material. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2283468-A (GB)
Title: Vehicle corner steady security device
Inventor: ALLEN IVOR
IPC: B60R25/00
Filed: 1993-11-02
Abstract: The security device is for use with vehicles fitted with a corner steady. The security device comprises a first part 20 including a guard 22 which can be fitted over, or adjacent, to an operating end 17 of the operating spindle 14 of a corner steady to prevent unauthorised access thereto. The security device also comprises a second part 21 which can be fitted to a chassis member 24 of a vehicle equipped with a corner steady. Means (typically a nut and bolt and a cap which can be locked over the nut) 26 are also provided for locking the two parts together so that the second part cannot be removed from the chassis and the guard cannot be removed from its position over, or adjacent to, the operating end of the operating spindle. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2287909-A (GB)
Title: Method and materials for ceiling papering
Inventor: CAMPBELL LACHLAN
IPC: B44C7/00
Filed: 1994-03-11
Abstract: A ceiling papering set comprises a plurality of rolls of paper lengths each bearing a respective part of an integral pictorial subject or pattern with no specific viewing orientation, the total area of the paper lengths in the set corresponding to an individual one of a plurality of different ranges of ceiling area. In order to paper a ceiling with such a set, a length (1) bearing a centre strip zone of the pictorial subject is applied to the ceiling so as to pass over the ceiling centre (A) and extend perpendicularly to the opposite side edges (B, C) of the ceiling and the remaining lengths (2 to 9) are then applied in such a sequence as to build up the pictorial subject or pattern. The rolls of paper lengths have markings thereon to indicate the sequence of placement of, and outside the orientation of the edges of, the lengths. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2279700-A (GB)
Title: Two-stroke crosshead engine
Inventor: RUSCH FRIEDRICH
IPC: F02B75/02
Filed: 1994-07-04
Abstract: A piston 5 acts on a crankshaft 10 via a crosshead rod 6, a crosshead 7 mounted in a crosshead guide 8 and a connecting rod 9, inlet ports 17 and outlet ports being formed in the cylinder 4 above the bottom dead-centre position of the piston 5 for the purpose of charge change. The crankcase 2 and the cylinder block 3 are joined at a parting plane Atf which is below the lowest piston ring 24 at bottom dead-centre and passages 18a leading to the ports 17 are formed in the cylinder block and open to a charge compression chamber 18b in the crankcase. The guide 8 is oval and may be formed by a sleeve threaded into the crankcase. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2281063-A (GB)
Title: A device for connecting a tool on a lifting means
Inventor: NORBERG LARS GOERAN LARS
IPC: E02F3/36
Filed: 1994-08-19
Abstract: A device is provided for releasably securing a tool to a tool holder on the end of a lifting boom of a front end loader. The device comprises a bolt 48, having a locking part 64 at either end, which is actuated using handle 72. Both the tool and tool holder have tongues 58 which overlap in two locations between the double walls 56 of the tool holder, when the tool is held by the holder. The tongues 58 have openings 60 which are brought into registration by lifting up the tool with the boom using a hook arrangement. The bolt 48 is then actuated, so that the locking parts 64 engage the registered openings 60 in the two locations. The bolt 48 is maintained in the locked position by springs 78, 84. The bolt 48 is unlocked by pulling the handle 72 so as to compress the springs 78, 84 and may be held in an unlocked position by means of a narrow end of a slot 66. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2290978-A (GB)
Title: Cue
Inventor: CULLEN DAN
IPC: A63D15/10
Filed: 1994-09-15
Abstract: Slider means 8 adapted for mounting on a cue comprises a handle portion 14 and an apertured portion. The apertured portion is adapted to receive part of a cue therethrough such that the cue is slidable within the aperture in the longitudinal direction of the cue. The cue with the slider means mounted thereon facilitates use by an inexperienced player. The handle portion can be the exterior of the apertured portion. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2286556-A (GB)
Title: A film blowing head for extruding a tubular web of a thermoplasic synthetic melt
Inventor: SENSEN KLEMENS
IPC: B29C48/10
Filed: 1994-12-20
Abstract: A film blowing head 1 for extruding a tubular web of a thermoplastic synthetic melt consists of at least one inner cooling ring 14 and a pipe 9 passing through the blowing head, wherein a central pipe 8 is arranged with the formation of an annular space 7. The annular space 7 is placed in an air conducting communication with the inner cooling ring. The cooling and supporting air is fed via lines 6 into the annular space 7 and is drawn off again through the central pipe 8. To permit cooling with very cold air, the pipe 9 feeding the cooling air is surrounded, in the zone of the blowing head, by two concentric pipes 16, 17 with the formation of two annular spaces 20, 23. The two annular spaces are connected with each other in the zone of the plane of the outlet nozzle gap of the blowing head by an overflow compartment 18 that is closed towards the outside. Warm air is fed to one of the annular spaces, and is drawn off again through the other annular space. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2298541-A (GB)
Title: Method of producing a colouring-in medium
Inventor: SHRIMPTON JOHN LESLIE
IPC: H04N1/46
Filed: 1995-01-31
Abstract: A colouring-in medium is prepared by loading data representing an image into a computer, the image data having been obtained by scanning an image such as a photograph or retrieving the data from a storage medium such as a CD-ROM, and then processing the image data to designate visually areas which are to be coloured-in, in the style of painting-by-numbers, and printing the processed image.
Patent GB-2288366-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus for feeding printing ink to a rotary printing machine
Inventor: JUNGHANS RUDI
IPC: B41F31/02
Filed: 1995-03-01
Abstract: The apparatus has an ink fountain (1) provided with an ink metering device (2) for controlling the amount of ink (3) fed to a fountain roller (4), wherein the ink is supplied from a cartridge (11). A carriage (6) is adapted to support the cartridge (11) on a traverse (5) extending in parallel spaced relationship to the fountain roller (4) and is movable to and fro along the traverse. The carriage pivotally supports an ink pipe (24) depending from a pivoting bearing (18) supported on the carriage by a journal (19) to which the lower end of a lever (20) is connected, the upper end of the lever being connected to spring biassing means so as to bias the ink feeding pipe to a vertical position in which an ink feed opening (27) at the upper end thereof is in alignment with an ink feed opening (28) formed in said carriage and connecting with the cartridge. The lower end of the ink feed pipe extends into the ink in the fountain, whereby when the carriage is moved to and fro, the ink feed pipe will be caused to rock out of its vertical position, thereby moving the two ink feed openings out of alignment to prevent the flow of ink into the fountain. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2299508-A (GB)
Title: Chicken rearing process
Inventor: HUNG TSA-FA
IPC: A61K35/744
Filed: 1995-04-07
Abstract: A living preparation of yeast and bacteria is fed to chickens or administered to the litter in a chicken rearing enclosure to biodegrade chicken excrement. Typical bacteria are Bacillus, Lactobacillus or Streptococcus. Yeasts may be Candida or Saccharomyces.
Patent GB-2300219-A (GB)
Title: Clamping of electrical or other cables
Inventor: COLE GRAHAM
IPC: H01R13/58
Filed: 1995-09-20
Abstract: A cable retention device has two limbs (130, fig 6) which define a generally circular opening therebetween. The limbs are urged together by the walls of a slot, into which the device is fitted, to grip a cable disposed in the opening. The device may define a further opening (33) of a different size, to permit a cable of different diameter to be accommodated. Alternative embodiments of device are disclosed; in fig. 8b, for example, a flexible web (34) connects two limbs which, when fitted within a slot, clamp a central cable. If the limbs are reversed within the slot, recesses (36) define a larger aperture for a cable. Locking protrusions may be provided on the limbs of a device, to cooperate resiliently with recesses adjacent the slot, thereby retaining the device in place.
Patent GB-2293993-A (GB)
Title: Hydrocyclone separator
Inventor: MCKEOWN JOHN B
IPC: B04C5/103
Filed: 1995-10-02
Abstract: Separator 105, which is for use in mixed sewage separation, has a liquid vortex-forming chamber 130 with tangential inlet (150, Fig 11), a gravity-assisted outlet 145 and is characterised by a concave, at least partially foraminous screen 125 in the upper region of the chamber arranged to interfere with the vortex when the liquid level is high (eg under storm conditions) whereby excess liquid may overflow but solids are retained. The chamber may contain a baffle (20, fig 1) to control flow of fluid which reacts with the screen. Removal of solids caught on the screen may be assisted by shaping the perforated parts of the screen to promote turbulence and/or by scraping or washing devices. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2294348-A (GB)
Title: Cashless gaming machine operation
Inventor: WHEELER MARK W
IPC: G07F7/02
Filed: 1995-10-11
Abstract: A method and system for cashless gaming machine operation preferably implemented aboard an airplane, where a cashless gaming system is desirable, comprises a location subsystem, an operator subsystem, and a financial institution subsystem, wherein each subsystem is capable of communicating with the other subsystems. A player uses a financial card to operate a gaming machine. The financial institution subsystem that services the player's financial card transmits authorization to the location subsystem via the operator subsystem, thereby providing the player with a preauthorized credit limit. Only the player's actual losses, if any, are charged to the player's financial card account, with the remaining balance of the preauthorized credit limit transmitted back to the financial institution subsystem as an authorization credit. Furthermore, the player's winnings, if any, are credited to the player's financial card account, thereby eliminating the need for the player or flight attendant to handle cash.
Patent GB-2296017-A (GB)
Title: Chondrocyte cell-lines
Inventor: STRINGER BRADLEY MICHAEL JOHN
IPC: A61K35/12
Filed: 1995-10-25
Abstract: An articular chondrocyte having the ability to mineralise calcium is described. The chondrocyte may be mature, or of foetal origin, and may be provided as a cell-line, preferably of human origin. The chondrocyte may comprise an oncogene, which is preferably temperature-sensitive, especially the SV40T antigen. The cell-line may be produced by a process involving an immortalisation agent, which may comprise the oncogene. The cell-lines may be used to identify therapeutic agents for the treatment of arthritis. There is also described a human hypertrophic cell-line, in which the cells may have the features described, and may be prepared by a process analogous to that defined above. The cells may be used to produce joint matrix tissue for use in the repair and/or replacement of damaged tissue, or for use in the identification of therapeutic agents for the treatment of arthritis.
Patent GB-2293071-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus and method of notifying a recipient of an unscheduled delivery
Inventor: ROSS JOHN
IPC: G01S5/14
Filed: 1993-10-19
Abstract: An apparatus and method of an electronic complex (10) associated with a carrier of items to be delivered at unscheduled times to recipients (21). The electronic complex (10) analyzes positioning signals to determine the location of the carrier and the time period to travel to the location of a recipient in a sequence of deliveries. A signal to notify the recipient of pending delivery is communicated if the time period is less than a predetermined interval. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2300456-A (GB)
Title: Replacing pipeline and replacement pipe construction
Inventor: HILL DAVID JOHN
IPC: E21B7/30
Filed: 1995-11-22
Abstract: An existing pipeline is replaced by causing a pipe-bursting head to be moved through it so as to split it into pieces, a new pipeline being towed behind the bursting head; the new pipeline is formed from a length or lengths of pipe having a polyethylene main pipe body and an outer protective layer of polypropylene which has enhanced abrasion resistance, cut resistance and point impingement resistance relative to the polyethylene, and wherein the polypropylene layer is readily removable in at least the end regions of the pipe to enable the end regions to be coupled to other pipelines or pipe elements by mechanical and/or fusion means. The outer layer is not bonded, but, at the most, lightly adhered to the main pipe to enable the outer layer to be cut away at the pipe section ends to enable jointing of sections. Optionally, the outer layer incorporates toughening agents, e.g. mineral based, glass beads, hollow glass spheres.